Telling the Time

The White Rabbit is a character from  Alice in Wonderland.  He always tries to beat the clock, and his famous words are “I’m late, I’m late, for a very important date! No time to say, Hello, Good-bye, I’m late, I’m late, I’m late!”.

El conejo blanco es un personaje de Alicia en el país de las maravillas. Siempre intenta ganar tiempo, y dice: “llego, llego tarde, a una cita importante. No tengo tiempo de decir hola. Adiós, llego tarde, llego tarde.”

In English, we ask What’s the time ? or What time is it? and we answer following this drawing. It’s…

You can tell the time following this picture (complete this exercise) or simply using ordinal numbers as in this exercise

Practise telling the time with the exercises in this book.

Now listen and pick the right time: listening 0, listening 1, listening 2.

Do these exercises: exercise 1, exercise 2, exercise 3, exercise 4, exercise 5, exercise 6

And finally, try these interactive games: Telling the Time Games 

People Song - Jobs

Present Simple exercises

Here's a list of present simple exercises:

• If you need to review the form of the present simple tense, click here.
• If you need to review how we use the present simple tense, click here.

Present Simple Form (with the verb 'be'):

• 'Be' positive form (easy) (download in PDF)
• 'Be' negative form (easy) (download in PDF)
• 'Be' 'yes / no' question form (easy) (download in PDF)
• 'Be' 'wh' question form (easy) (download in PDF)
• 'Be' mixed exercise 1 (quite easy) (download in PDF)
• 'Be' mixed exercise 2 (quite easy) (download in PDF)

Present Simple Form (with all verbs except 'be'):

• Other verbs positive form, exercise 1 (very easy) (download in PDF)
• Other verbs positive form, exercise 2 (very easy) (download in PDF)
• Other verbs negative form, exercise 1 (easy) (download in PDF)
• Other verbs negative form, exercise 2 (easy) (download in PDF)
• Other verbs 'yes / no' questions (easy) (download in PDF)
• Other verbs 'wh' questions (easy) (download in PDF)
• Other verbs mixed exercise 1 (fairly easy) (download in PDF)
• Other verbs mixed exercise 2 (fairly easy) (download in PDF)
• Other verbs mixed exercise 3 (fairly easy) (download in PDF)

Mixed exercises with all verbs (be and other verbs):

• Mixed exercise 1 with be and other verbs (fairly easy) (download in PDF)

Here's an exercise about spelling changes in this tense:

• Spelling changes (easy) (download in PDF)

What do you do? or What's your job?

Here is some vocabulary about jobs

In English we normally ask the following questions:

What do you do? or  What’s your job?

And we can answer like this:

I’m a student.     

I’m an office worker.         

I’m unemployed.

Now watch this video:

Present Simple

Pay attention to this slideshow to remember the rules

Now, try these exercises exercise 1 exercise 2 exercise 3

Remember the order when you ask questions!!!!!!!!!

ASI       Auxiliary      Subject         Infinitive

               Do                   you                 like football?

               Does              your sister     work?

or    QUASI

               Question word     Auxiliary   Subject    Infinitive

                  Where                      do                you              live?

                  What                       does            Peter           do?

Try these exercises exercise 1 exercise 2

Finally you can put it all in practice in this quiz or in this  exercise

USE

We use the present simple to talk about routines and everyday activities.

Source: EOI Elx